Robert Zemeckis - IMDb IMDb Producer | Writer | Director A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making ( Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale , Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy ( Romancing the Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect vehicles ( Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Back to ... See full bio » Born: What Makes the Golden Globe Awards So Entertaining? IMDb Special Correspondent Dave Karger breaks down why the Golden Globes are so much more entertaining than other award shows. Don't miss our live coverage of the Golden Globes beginning at 4 p.m. PST on Jan. 8 in our Golden Globes section.

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Personal Quote: From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money. See more » Trivia: He is rated an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) private pilot. See more » Trademark: Often uses a scene in a restaurant/bar, with the main character starting a fight and then fleeing out into the street, where a complicated chase ensues ( Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990)). See more » Nickname: Back to the Future (1985) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

Error Back to the Future ( 1985 ) PG | From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON TV ON DISC ALL Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. Director: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 27 titles created 06 Oct 2013 a list of 41 titles created 26 Dec 2013 a list of 22 titles created 02 Sep 2014 a list of 25 titles created 30 Oct 2014 a list of 22 titles created 2 months ago Title: Back to the Future (1985) 8.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site?

Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 1 Oscar. Another 18 wins & 26 nominations. See more awards » Videos After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip. Director: Robert Zemeckis Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend. Director: Robert Zemeckis A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg. Director: James Cameron Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. Director: Steven Spielberg During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok. Director: Steven Spielberg When Dr. Henry Jones Sr.

suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis. Director: Steven Spielberg A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs. Director: James Cameron After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke. Director: Irvin Kershner Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.

Director: Robert Zemeckis Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader. Director: George Lucas When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. Director: Ridley Scott Edit Storyline Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future. Written by Robert Lynch <docrlynch@yahoo.com> 17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early.

See more » Genres: 3 July 1985 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Volver al futuro See more » Filming Locations: £461,194 (UK) (1 October 2010) Gross: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| Dolby (35 mm prints) (as Dolby Stereo) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Doc Brown refers to "jigawatts" of electricity. This is the now-obscure but once-standard pronunciation of the word "gigawatt", one billion watts. Nowadays it is usually pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gander" and "gold". In neo-Latin languages, still, it's pronounced with a soft "g". So he chose it. See more » Goofs The boy from whom Marty borrowed the skateboard can be seen behind the manure truck right after Biff hits it with his car. In the very next shot, he is on the sidewalk closer to Marty.

See more » Quotes [first lines] 1985 Radio Announcer : October is inventory time, so right now, Statler Toyota is making the best deals of the year on all 1985-model Toyotas. You won't find a better car at a better price with better service anywhere in Hill Valley. That's Statler Toyota in downtown Hill Valley. See more » Crazy Credits The character Marty McFly is credited as a performer on the song "Johnny B. Goode". It is actually sung by Mark Campbell with a guitar solo by Tim May . See more » Connections Performed by The Four Aces (as Four Aces) Courtesy of MCA Records, Inc. (Fraggle Rock) – See all my reviews Zemeckis's 'Back To The Future' trilogy has been a childhood favourite for a long time. Having revisited it today, brought me to a nostalgic state. The 80's saw a lot of excellent original fun 'young' films like 'Back To The Future' (of course), 'Better Off Dead', 'Heathers', 'The Breakfast Club' etc.

What really made these films immensely enjoyable then, and classics today, is that they really reflected what it was like being a young person in the 80s. The movies themselves were well written, well executed, well acted and they cut straight to the point. Back to 'Back To The Future'. This one is sheer fun, even today. There's an incredible energy about it but it still manages to stay an 'innocent' film. The music is very effective. It's slick and follows a steady pace. The special effects are decent. Though people might pick on the plausibility of the time travelling, I think this is really a very minor flaw because it is overall a well written movie and the point was to entertain. Yet, this is not to say that it's brainless entertainment. I think it cleverly brings forth some interesting themes and I liked how they funnily used some ideas of Oedipus Rex's story. The acting is superb overall. Christopher Lloyd as the over-the-top mad scientist is a laugh riot. Michael J. Fox totally owns Marty McFly with his natural charisma, raw energy and brilliant dialogue delivery. Lea Thompson is cute and vivacious and Crispin Glover is good.

'Back To The Future' is one of the most enjoyable time-travelling classics. It's over 23 years old and it still hasn't gotten old. Sadly, they don't make it like this these days but then again we always can revisit them. That's why they're classics. 81 of 85 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Back to the Future | Futurepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Back to the Future "He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all." —Tagline for the film "17-year-old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early." —Unused tagline for the film Back to the Future Back to the Future is an American science fiction/comedy movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1985 . It is about a young man named Marty McFly who accidentally travels into the past and jeopardizes his own future existence.

The film was followed by two sequels, Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 ), and Back to the Future Part III ( 1990 ), forming a trilogy . Back to the Future was written by Bob Gale and Zemeckis, and starred Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd . The movie opened on July 3 , 1985 and grossed $210 million at the US box office, making it the highest grossing film of 1985. [1] On December 17 , 2002 , Universal Studios Home Entertainment released Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy on DVD and VHS . Contents Synopsis 1985 On October 25 , 1985 , Marty McFly , a 17-year old high school senior, visits the home of his friend, an eccentric local scientist named Dr. Emmett L. Brown , but finds that "Doc" is not there. Moments before Marty had walked in, a report came across the television about missing and stolen plutonium . As Marty walks into Doc's house, he kicks his skateboard and it runs into a box of plutonium that is under Doc's bed.

Marty, however, does not notice the box and proceeds to hook his guitar up to the giant amplifier that Doc has constructed. Marty turns the amplifier settings to their highest points and strums his guitar. The amp blows up and sends Marty flying into the shelves behind him. Marty soon after receives a call from Doc asking him to meet him at 1:15 AM in the parking lot at Twin Pines Mall and was told not to use the amplifier, even though he already used it. As Marty agrees, the clocks in Doc's basement chime the hour. When Doc Brown remarks that the clocks are 25 minutes behind, proof that an experiment was successful, Marty realizes that he is late for school. When Marty gets to school , he is found by his girlfriend Jennifer Parker . She informs Marty that Mr. Strickland is looking for him. Mr. Strickland finds the kids and gives Jennifer and Marty each a tardy slip while reprimanding Marty.

After school, Marty and his band, " The Pinheads ," audition to play at the school dance, but the band is rejected for being "too darn loud." His band had been playing the song "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News, and the judge who delivers the bad news is played by Huey Lewis himself. Afterwards, Marty confides in Jennifer, about worrying that he will never get a chance to play for an audience. As they sit on a bench in the Courthouse Square of Hill Valley , they are interrupted by a woman insisting that Marty and Jennifer help "save the clock tower ." The lady proceeds to hand Marty a flyer about a campaign to save the clock tower, which was struck by lightning at 10:04 p.m. on Saturday, November 12 , 1955 . Jennifer soon has to leave and, as she is going to be at her grandma 's house that night, writes the phone number on the back of the flyer, Marty folds the flyer and puts it in his pocket.

When Marty gets home, he finds that the family car has been totalled by his father George 's supervisor, Biff Tannen , who has been drinking and driving (at the same time!), and is complaining that George had not told him the car had a "blind spot" (though most cars have a blind spot). Biff demands to know who is going to pay his dry-cleaning bill, as he spilled beer down his suit in the crash, then bullies George into writing his reports for work while making a rude comment by calling Marty " butthead ". The family has dinner, during which it is discovered that Marty's older brother Dave works at a Burger King , his sister Linda has no love life, and his alcoholic mother Lorraine disapproves of girls chasing boys. She remarks that fate brought her and George together from her father hitting George with a car after he mysteriously fell from a tree. Lorraine then mentions their first kiss at the " Enchantment Under the Sea " dance. It is obvious that there is no real passion between Lorraine and George. "Doc" Brown ( Christopher Lloyd ) and Marty McFly ( Michael J. Fox ) watching the first test of the time machine.

Marty falls asleep after dinner and is woken up by Doc calling him to bring Doc's video camera to the Twin Pines Mall. Marty meets Doc at the mall to witness and film a demonstration of Doc's latest invention: a time machine made from a modified DeLorean sports car, which must reach 88 miles-per-hour in order to travel through time. Doc tests the car by sending his dog Einstein one minute into the future. Overjoyed by this success, Doc demonstrates to Marty how the time machine works by entering several significant dates into the keypad and telling him that the time machine needs 1.21 gigawatts of electrical power. Doc enters the date November 5 , 1955 and explains to Marty that this was the day that he came up with the idea for the flux capacitor , the device that makes time travel possible. After Doc refills the plutonium chamber of the time machine, a group of Libyan terrorists arrive, from whom he took the plutonium in exchange for a fake bomb.

The Libyans shoot Doc, but Marty is able to escape in the DeLorean, accelerating to 88 miles per hour and thus inadvertently sending himself thirty years in the past to November 5 , 1955 . 1955 Marty is hit by Sam Baines and alters history Marty, immediately, arrives at the Twin Pines Ranch , which was owned by Otis Peabody . Marty crashes into the barn on Mr. Peabody's property which causes the entire Peabody family to wake up and come outside. On seeing Marty in his radiation suit , it is concluded that he is an alien. Mr. Peabody then gets his shotgun to kill Marty, but Marty is able to escape. In his rush to get away Marty runs over one of the namesake "Twin Pine" trees in the DeLorean, speeding away as Mr Peabody hits his own mailbox with a shotgun blast. Marty encounters many differences between 1985 and 1955, including a cleaner, less run-down ambiance in the Courthouse Square. While searching for a younger Doc Brown, he meets his father in a cafe and finds that even back then he was practically under Biff's heel.

Following George, he finds him in a tree spying on girls undressing with binoculars. Suddenly George falls from the tree into the path of a car, but Marty pushes him out of the way and is hit instead. George runs off as the owner (Lorraine's father) shouts for help. Marty wakes up to find his mother watching over him, however it is a now teenage Lorraine caring for him and its clear she likes the stranger, who she calls " Calvin Klein " because she sees the name on his underwear. He has dinner with Lorraine's family, claims that he has seen the episode of The Honeymooners (" The Man from Space ") on TV even though it is brand new, and meets his Uncle Joey , a future "jailbird" who loves being in his playpen. Disturbed by his "mother's" flirtations, Marty is shocked because she is entirely different from the prudish woman he remembers. Doc and Marty discuss sending him "back to the future". Marty quickly leaves after feeling uncomfortable and finds Doc, who disbelieves his story until Marty mentions the flux capacitor and how Doc came up with the idea. He then shows Doc the DeLorean.

Amazed that one of his inventions will work, Doc realizes that he's got to get Marty home. After watching Marty's film of the time machine experiment, Doc is shocked to hear his future self explain that the DeLorean needs 1.21 gigawatts, and he runs off screaming "1.21 gigawatts?!" and Marty asks loudly "What the hell is a gigawatt?!" Doc realizes that he has no access to anything that would produce "1.21 gigawatts" of electrical power on demand and concludes that only harnessing the electrical power of a lightning bolt would give the flux capacitor that power it needs. Marty then shows him the flyer from 1985 that gives the exact time and place of a lightning bolt, one week away. Doc sets out to build a device that will let them channel the lightning bolt into the flux capacitor ultimately sending Marty back to 1985. This excites Marty, suggesting that Doc shows him around town while he waits. Doc stops him in mid-sentence, stating that he cannot leave his house. Anything he does risks altering future events. Doc then asks Marty if he had talked to anyone else today beside him.

Marty admits that he ran into his parents. Shocked at this revelation, Doc tells Marty that his encounter with his parents has jeopardized Marty's own existence. A photograph Marty carries of himself, Dave, and Linda documents this peril: part of Dave, the eldest, appears to have been "erased" from the photo, soon to be followed by Linda, and finally, unless disaster is averted, Marty. Suddenly realizing that pushing his father out of the way of the car is what caused his current problem, Marty sets out to get the two back together before it's too late. Marty begins with trying to persuade George to ask Lorraine to the dance, but George is too nervous. They also have trouble with Biff, who is after Lorraine. After a couple unsuccessful attempts at getting George and Lorraine together, Marty dresses up in his radioactive suit and rudely awakes George while sleeping. Marty claims to be " Darth Vader " from the planet " Vulcan ." The next morning, George finds Marty because he is now convinced that he must woo Lorraine. In Lou's Cafe , George attempts to woo Lorraine, but Biff comes in and harasses George.

In an attempt to take up for his father, Marty trips Biff which leads to an exciting chase. Marty runs out of the cafe and creates a makeshift skateboard from a young boy's scooter. Marty is then able to outsmart and outmaneuver Biff and his gang, who are in a car. Biff subsequently runs into a manure truck. The whole incident makes Lorraine even more attracted to Marty, and she asks Marty to the dance. Marty accepts the invitation, but forms a plan for George to get Lorraine. Marty tells George that his plan is to 'take advantage' of Lorraine in the car, so that George can come rescue her. On the night of the dance, however, Lorraine is more than willing to let Marty take advantage of her, having swiped some liquor for the event. She eventually plants a kiss on Marty, but it only last a couple of seconds suddenly growing uncomfortable, comparing it to "kissing my brother". Biff interrupts and gets in the car with Lorraine, while Biff's gang locks Marty in the trunk of the band's car . Marty is soon freed from the trunk, and he runs back to where Biff and Lorraine are.

When George arrives, expecting Marty, he finds Biff harassing Lorraine instead. Biff offers George the chance to walk away as Lorraine pleads for help, but despite his fear George tells Biff to leave Lorraine alone. Biff responds by getting out of the car and twisting George's arm back, threatening to break it. Lorraine tries to force Biff to let go, but he pushes Lorraine to the ground and laughs at her. At this, George becomes infuriated; suddenly, he breaks free of Biff's grip and knocks him out with a single punch to the chin which Marty arrives just in time to witness. George and Lorraine head off to the dance, as the assembled students can't believe that George just knocked out Biff. Marty is also shocked, but happy, that his father finally stood up to Biff, however, the photograph is still fading. It turns out that singer-guitarist Marvin Berry cut his left hand while trying to free Marty from the trunk using a screwdriver , meaning that the live music is seemingly over, robbing George and Lorraine of the opportunity to kiss on the dance floor.

Marty volunteers to play the guitar instead, however, suddenly finding himself the only one left on the photograph, in which, Lorraine and George dancing was the only thing keeping him in existence. During the first number, " Earth Angel ", Mark Dixon , a student, cuts in between George and Lorraine. Despite Lorraine asking George to help, he initially walks away from the confrontation. Marty suddenly collapses on stage and sees that his image is now fading from the photograph and reality (he proves this as he raises his right hand to see that he is literally fading from existence as his hand starts to become translucent). Thankfully George gets back his new-found confidence, pushes Dixon to the floor and proceeds to kiss Lorraine. At the moment of the kiss, Marty begins playing the guitar again with a renewed vigor. Looking at the photograph, Marty is fully restored before Dave and Linda also reappear, allowing Marty to know that his future is assured. At the band's request, Marty plays one more song, " Johnny B. Goode ." Marvin Berry calls his cousin, Chuck Berry , and tells that he found the "new sound" Chuck was looking for.

Marty does Chuck Berry's trademark duck walk, and then gets carried away imitating other guitar heroes: windmilling his arm and kicking over his amplifier in imitation of Pete Townshend , lying on the stage kicking his legs in imitation of Angus Young , playing behind his head like Jimi Hendrix , and tapping in the style of Eddie Van Halen . In the face of uncomprehending stares from the audience, Marty says, "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it." The DeLorean gets struck by lightning. Marty has a last chat with his parents and leaves to rejoin Doc Brown, who has suspended a cable from the top of the clock tower to channel the lightning into the DeLorean. Just as Marty is getting ready to take the DeLorean to the starting line Doc drew, Doc discovers a letter that Marty had written earlier describing Doc's death. Doc, not wanting to alter the future, tears it up unread and intends to throw it away. Before he can however, a tree limb falls onto the cable, disconnecting it. Doc puts the torn pieces of the letter in his coat pocket and runs to fix the cable.

Marty continually tries to tell Doc about the future, but runs out of time and has to return to the DeLorean. Getting in the car, Marty bemoans that he needed more time... then realises that, as he's in a time machine, he has all the time he wants as long as he hit the cable at the lightning strike and resets the time circuits to take him back earlier than he left, so he can save Doc. Meanwhile, Doc fixes one wire only to disconnect another. He slides down the wire and reconnects it, just as the lightning hits the tower. Marty accelerates to 88 miles per hour and contacts the cable just as the lightning speeds through the electrified wire, sending the DeLorean back to the future, Doc runs along the fire trails, shouts in laughter at his successful experiment and the last of 1955 seen is Doc looking at the clock tower. Back to 1985 Marty returns to 1985 eleven minutes before he left, but the car stalls again.

While frantically trying to start the car, the Libyans drive past and Marty has no choice but to run to the mall (now called Lone Pine Mall due to Marty having run over one of the pine trees in 1955). Marty arrives too late, and sees Doc being shot and himself driving the DeLorean back in time while the terrorists crash into a Fox Photo booth. As Marty rushes down, he begins weeping over Doc's loss. Doc suddenly sits up, opening his radiation suit to reveal a bulletproof vest . He then pulls out the letter Marty wrote him, yellowed with age and taped back together from the shreds he tore it into 30 years before. Marty asks Doc why he kept the letter if he was worried about screwing up the future. Doc simply tells Marty, "Well, I figured, what the hell." The DeLorean takes off from Lyon Estates . Doc drives Marty home, and then departs for the year 2015 . In the morning, Marty discovers his house is different; there is a new BMW in the driveway (in place of the wrecked Chevrolet Nova), Linda has an active social life and Dave has an office job.

Lorraine and George arrive home from playing tennis , both more fit and attractive, and much more affectionate to one another than when Marty left. Lorraine now approves of Marty seeing Jennifer and George also shows more self-confidence, even catching Biff in a fib. Biff, who is now timid and instead of being George's supervisor now has an auto detailing service, runs in with the delivery of George's first novel, a science-fiction story called A Match Made In Space . Marty then finds that the Toyota Hilux pick-up truck that he previously coveted is now his as a gift from his parents. As Marty and Jennifer are about to take a ride in the truck, Doc reappears in the DeLorean, telling Marty to come with him to the future, that something has got to be done about their kids. He hurries Marty and Jennifer into the car. As Doc pulls out of the driveway, Marty points out that there is not enough road to accelerate to 88 mph, with Doc replying, "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads," and flies off in the now fusion-powered and hover-converted DeLorean.

Cast Production Script The inspiration for the film largely stems from Bob Gale , who discovered his father's high school yearbook and wondered whether he would have been friends with his father as a teenager. Robert Zemeckis pitched the idea to several companies. Disney turned it down because they thought that a story involving a mother falling in love with her son was too risqué, even if it was a twist of time travel. All other companies said it was not risqué enough, compared to the other teen comedies at the time (see Porky's , Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984)). Sid Sheinberg , the head of Universal Pictures, made many small changes to the movie. "Professor Brown" was changed to "Doctor Brown" and his chimp Shemp to a dog named Einstein . Marty's mother had previously been Meg, then Eileen, but Sid Sheinberg insisted that she be named Lorraine after his wife Lorraine Gary. According to one of the DVD commentaries, Sheinberg also did not like the title, insisting that no one would see a movie with "future" in the title.

In a memo to Robert Zemeckis , he said that the title should be changed to "Spaceman From Pluto", tying in with the Marty-as-alien jokes in the film. [2] Steven Spielberg replied in a memo thanking him for the wonderful "joke memo" and told him everyone got a kick out of it. Sid Sheinberg, too proud to admit he was serious, let the title stand. [3] In the original script , Marty's rock-and-roll caused a riot at the dance that had to be broken up by police. This, combined with Marty accidentally tipping Doc off to the "secret ingredient" that made the time machine work ( Coca-Cola ) caused history to change. When Marty got back to the 1980s, he found that it was now the 1950s conception of that decade, with air-cars and whatnot, all invented by Doc Brown and running on Coca-Cola. Marty also discovers that rock and roll was never invented (the most popular musical style is now the mambo), and he dedicates himself to starting the delayed cultural revolution. Meanwhile, his dad digs out the newspaper from the day after the dance and sees his son in the picture of the riot.

[4] In the film's script the word " gigawatt " is spelled and pronounced "jigowatt." Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis had been to a science seminar and the speaker had pronounced it "jigowatt." Casting and filming As Back to the Future's producers scouted locations on a residential street in Pasadena, California , Michael J. Fox was elsewhere on that street, filming his second (Midnight Madness was his first) starring feature role, Teen Wolf. The producers became interested in having Fox play Marty McFly. However, Fox initially had to turn down the part because another actor in Family Ties, Meredith Baxter-Birney, was pregnant at the time, and so Fox's character (Alex Keaton) had to "carry the show." [5] Production of the film began on November 26 , 1984 with actor Eric Stoltz portraying Marty McFly, and reportedly shot for more than four weeks, until the return of executive producer Steven Spielberg, who was out of the country at the time. After seeing a rough cut, Spielberg and the writer/directors agreed that Stoltz was a fine actor, but unfortunately not right for the part.

Stoltz had played it seriously, and they wanted a lighter touch on the character. They returned to the idea of Michael J. Fox, who this time worked out a shooting schedule that would not interfere with his television commitment. Fox spent his days rehearsing and shooting Family Ties, and then drove to the movie's set to film Back to The Future all night. The movie's day shots were filmed on weekends. Fox reportedly averaged only an hour or two of sleep each night during production, which was completed on April 20 , 1985 , less than three months before the film's release. [3] Much of the original footage was retained for the film, for shots in which Eric Stoltz were not visible. Bob Gale later explained in a commentary track on a DVD release that some dialogue scenes with other actors were from the original shoot. A few long shots with Stoltz as Marty McFly still exist in the film, according to Zemeckis and Gale, and there was at least one "teaser" movie poster released with Eric Stoltz's name and face visible.

One notable scene that was kept in the final film is the one in which Stoltz as Marty drives the DeLorean in the mall parking lot. Since the shots were fairly distant, with the driver's face not particularly visible, the footage was retained. According to Tom Wilson, another notable scene that was kept in the film was when Stoltz as Marty punches Biff in Lou's Cafe, he stated that since it was a closeup of himself they decided to keep that shot. Taglines considered but not used for Back to the Future [6] were: The adventures of Marty McFly. Marty McFly just broke the time barrier. He's only got one week to get it fixed. Meet Marty McFly. He's broken the time barrier. Busted his parents' first date. And, maybe, botched his chances of ever being born. 17-year-old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early. Marty McFly's having the time of his life. The only question is... what time is it? Michael J. Fox had to learn to skateboard for the film. To find a coordinator for the skateboarding scenes, Bob Gale went to Venice Beach and approached two skateboarders.

One turned out to be European skate champ Per Welinder. The skater he was with became the stunt double for Eric Stoltz, but was later replaced in order to match Michael J. Fox's height. Christopher Lloyd reportedly based his performance as Doc Brown on a combination of physicist Albert Einstein and conductor Leopold Stokowski . [3] Several key scenes were filmed on the Universal Studios backlot in what is now known as Courthouse Square. The setting of hundreds of other productions, including the current television show Ghost Whisperer, it has suffered major fire damage on two occasions since Back to the Future was made. [7] The DeLorean time machine A side view of the DeLorean as seen at Universal Studios 's Back to the Future: The Ride . The time machine went through several variations during production. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test site. Director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.

In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean DMC-12 , as Zemeckis reasoned that if you were going to make a time machine, you would want it to move. However, in order to send Marty back to the future, the vehicle had to drive into a nuclear test site. Ultimately this concept was considered too expensive to film, so the power source was changed to lightning . The DeLorean used in the trilogy was a 1982 DMC-12 model, modified to accommodate a more powerful and reliable Porsche engine (a Porsche engine was never put in any of the DMC time machines). The base for the nuclear-reactor was made from the hubcap from a Dodge Polara . In the 2002 Special-Edition DVD of the BTTF Trilogy, it is incorrectly stated that the DeLorean had a standard 4-cylinder engine. The only engine available on this car was a 130 HP V6. Also, the production ultimately used three real DeLoreans: one for external drive/race scenes, one with a modified interior for entering/exiting the DeLorean, and one stripped down model for interior scenes only.

The DeLorean time machine is a licensed, registered vehicle in the state of California . While the vanity license plate used in the film says OUTATIME (and originally NOTIME), the DeLorean's real life license plate reads 3CZV657. Music The film's musical score was by Alan Silvestri , who later wrote music for Forrest Gump and numerous other films, many of them directed by Robert Zemeckis. The memorable themes in his Back to the Future Suite have since been heard in the film's sequels (also scored by Silvestri), in Back to the Future: The Ride , and as ambient music at the Universal Studios theme parks. The hip, upbeat soundtrack, featuring two new songs by Huey Lewis and the News , also contributed to the film's popularity. " The Power of Love " became the band's first song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for an Academy Award . Huey Lewis himself played the high-school band audition judge that rejects Michael J.

Fox's band, The Pinheads , as they perform "The Power of Love." The film's soundtrack, which was available on compact disc , also included songs by Eric Clapton , Lindsay Buckingham , Etta James and others. Two 1950s hits Marty encounters when he arrives in 1955, Mr. Sandman by the Four Aces and the Fess Parker recording of The Ballad of Davy Crockett , were not included on the CD release. The material ostensibly by Marty McFly, Marvin Berry and the Starlighters was recorded by Harry Waters, Jr. as Marvin Berry and Mark Campbell as Marty McFly, and the guitar solo by Tim May . (Campbell and May received a Special Thanks acknowledgment in the film's end credits, with the recording credit going to the fictional characters). Berry's group also plays the song " Night Train ", first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1951 . [8] Reception Critical Reviews were generally positive. Roger Ebert complimented the direction, writing that Zemeckis "shows not only a fine comic touch but also some of the lighthearted humanism of a Frank Capra.

The movie, in fact, resembles Capra's It's a Wonderful Life more than other, conventional time-travel movies. It's about a character who begins with one view of his life and reality, and is allowed, through magical intervention, to discover another." [9] Even the sequences where Marty's mom has the "hots for him" is regarded as "up-beat... without ever becoming uncomfortable." [10] The BBC applauded the intricacies of the "outstandingly executed" script, remarking that "nobody says anything that doesn't become important to the plot later." [11] This movie ranked number 28 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. [12] As of December 2006, Back to the Future had received a very respectable 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, with 98% rating from the users. [13] In 2006, Back to the Future was voted the 20th greatest film ever made by readers of Empire .

[14] Cultural impact The series was very popular in the 1980s, even making fans out of celebrities like ZZ Top (who appeared in the third film) and President Ronald Reagan , who referred to the movie in his 1986 State of the Union address when he said, "Never has there been a more exciting time to be alive, a time of rousing wonder and heroic achievement. As they said in the film Back to the Future, 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'" [15] He also considered accepting a role in the third film as the 1885 mayor of Hill Valley but eventually declined. In early 2007 , the film was spoofed in a DirectTV commercial, with Doc stating: "Great Scott! I forgot to tell Marty when he gets back to the future he needs to get DirectTV HD. It will already have all the best channels and soon will have 3-times more HD capacity than cable. Impossible?!? That's what they said about my Flux Capacitor!" Series continuity Sequels were not initially planned.

Zemeckis later stated that had sequels been envisioned, the first film would not have ended with Jennifer traveling in the DeLorean with Marty and Doc, which created logistical problems in plotting the other films. In addition, the "To Be Continued..." caption was not added until the film was released to video [11] by which time plans for a sequel (eventually two sequels) had been announced (the filmmakers chose to omit the caption from the 2002 DVD release). Ultimately, the sequels did not fare as well at the box office. While the first installment grossed $210 million (making it the biggest-earning movie of 1985), Parts II (fall of 1989 ) and III (summer of 1990 ) made roughly $118 million and $88 million, respectively (still making them hits, but not major hits).

Home video release history October 26, 2010 ( Blu-ray & DVD) February 15, 2011 (Zune/Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and other digital gateways) Behind the scenes According to some websites, such as imdb.com, Leonard Nimoy was going to direct Back to the Future but was unable to because he was starting work on the story for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In November 2010, Bob Gale spoke to BTTF.com as part of a Myth Debunking story and debunked this rumor and said that "No one but Bob Zemeckis would have ever been allowed to direct Back to the Future because we both had complete control of the script." Appearances Steven Spielberg | Futurepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia [Source] Steven Allan Spielberg (born on December 18 , 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and studio executive.

He was the executive producer of all three installments of the Back to the Future trilogy , and has been given credit by producer Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis for helping them realize their dream of bringing Back to the Future to the screen. Other work Steven Spielberg had his first major success as the director of Jaws (for which homage is paid in Back to the Future Part II ), which became, at the time of its release in 1975 , the highest grossing film in history. Spielberg then had success with Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 . Spielberg was also the director for the blockbusters Raiders of the Lost Ark , E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . Though Spielberg was very impressed with Zemeckis and Gale, his first three productions of their work were box office failures. Spielberg was executive producer for I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director for 1941 ( 1979 ), and executive producer for Used Cars ( 1980 ).

Although he was interested when Zemeckis and Gale approached him in 1982 for Back to the Future, the two writers did not want to take the risk of delivering another money-losing venture to Spielberg, and the stigma that it would cause for them. During the next several years, Zemeckis and Gale received more than 40 rejections while trying to get Back to the Future filmed. Steven Spielberg (in the middle) on the set of Back to the Future. When Robert Zemeckis successfully directed Romancing the Stone to box-office success in 1984 , he recounts, people who had rejected Back to the Future were eager to back the film. Zemeckis and Gale went back to the one person who had believed in them, and Spielberg's Amblin Productions was their choice when the film began production in 1984 for Universal Studios. Zemeckis and Gale give credit to Spielberg for protecting the film from a change in title that had been insisted upon by Universal's Sid Sheinberg . Sheinberg was adamant that he wanted the film to be called Spaceman From Pluto, on the grounds that no film with word "future" in its title had ever been successful.

The Bobs give full credit to Spielberg, who responded to Sheinberg with thanks for his "humorous memo", for saving the film. Zemeckis commented that Spielberg earned every penny he got from the trilogy. Spielberg was executive producer on Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III Spielberg is the father of six children, including Max Spielberg , who was born on June 13, 1985 , three weeks before the premiere of Back to the Future , and who was made part of the story for Back to the Future Part II as director of Jaws 19 in the year 2015.

Spielberg also was an executive producer for several Warner Bros cartoons, including Tiny Toon Adventures which included several voice actors from Back to the Future: The Animated Series , including: 'Back to the Future': Director, Stars, Producers Reveal 10 Secrets You Didn't Know | Hollywood Reporter 7:44am PT by Ryan Gajewski 'Back to the Future': Director, Stars, Producers Reveal 10 Secrets You Didn't Know Courtesy Everett Collection As the Robert Zemeckis-directed film celebrates 30 years since its release, the movie's team takes a look back at its surprisingly rocky production. Where we're going, we don't need roads — or approval from any of the film studios. In author Caseen Gaines' new tell-all book, We Don't Need Roads, the cast and crew behind the seminal sci-fi comedy Back to the Future, which hit theaters July 3, 1985, reveal all the secrets behind the film's bumpy path, including what it was like to hear initial rejections from every studio, replace the lead actor, endure friction among castmembers and get mixed reactions from test audiences.

In honor of the film's 30th anniversary, here are some of the most revealing tidbits from the book. Every movie could use a monkey? After producer Bob Gale got the idea for the film from looking at his dad's old yearbook during a visit home, he and college pal Robert Zemeckis worked on the first draft of the script together in 1981. In the initial effort, Marty was a video pirate, while his friend Professor Brown — not yet named "Doc" — had a pet chimp named Shemp. None of the studios were interested, and it wasn't until the success of Zemeckis' 1984 film Romancing the Stone that the film moved forward. Zemeckis and Gale turned to longtime acquaintance Steven Spielberg, the only person who had liked the project from the start, to produce, and so they took it to Universal, which housed Spielberg's Amblin offices. The leading man just wasn't working out. After filming for four weeks, director Zemeckis had to acknowledge that Eric Stoltz — who beat out fellow young actors like C.

Thomas Howell, Johnny Depp, John Cusack and Charlie Sheen to play Marty McFly — just wasn't delivering the laughs that the script required. Gale says Universal head Sid Sheinberg reluctantly agreed to replace Stoltz with Michael J. Fox, who was now available, as producers on Family Ties were more willing to share him with the film than they had been earlier in the sitcom's season. Not many co-workers were sad to see Stoltz go. Numerous crewmembers were bothered by Stoltz, who saw himself as a Method actor and mandated that he be referred to as "Marty" at all times, even when cameras weren't rolling. Actor Tom Wilson (Biff) had developed a strong dislike for Stoltz, feeling he used too much force when pushing him during a cafeteria scene. And Christopher Lloyd (Doc) calls Stoltz a "really good actor" but says he "was not bringing that element of comedy to the screen." Stoltz wasn't the only person who lost a big role during this transition. Melora Hardin, who would come to be known for playing Jan on NBC's The Office, had been cast as Marty's girlfriend Jennifer.

But when Fox replaced Stoltz, the filmmakers decided that the 5-foot-5 Hardin would appear too tall opposite the 5-foot-4 Fox, and so the part was recast, going to Claudia Wells. Hardin admits she burst into tears when Gale called her with the news, with Gale referring to the phone call as "one of the hardest things I ever had to do." Not everyone was thrilled when Fox was hired. Lea Thompson (Lorraine) took more time than most to warm up to the idea of Fox carrying the film. "I was really snotty then," Thompson admits. "I was like, 'Oh, my God, a sitcom actor?' I was so snotty about it. After I actually did a sitcom [Caroline in the City], I realized it was the hardest thing in the world." She adds that she was quickly won over by her new co-star. If only lightning could strike again. Industrial Light & Magic animator Wes Takahashi, who worked on the scene where the DeLorean traveled back to 1955, wasn't happy with how the effects turned out. "I never liked the animation that was finally approved of the gigantic lightning bolt that hit the clock tower," Takahashi says.

He felt the lightning bolt looked too fat, explaining he wishes he would have had more time to submit other designs or perfect the one that was used. Hired for a song. Mark Campbell, who actually sang the vocals for the film's rendition of "Johnny B. Goode," was informed after recording the tune that he would not be receiving an onscreen credit, as Gale told him the filmmakers wanted to maintain the illusion that Fox was performing the song. "I told him I understood," Campbell says. "I got it." Two days after their first conversation, Gale told Campbell he would instead get a "very, very small, but very nice percentage of the soundtrack," according to Campbell. The finished film didn't get a ringing endorsement at first. Editors were under the gun in order to make the scheduled release date, finishing a rough cut of the film just three weeks after cameras finished rolling. According to editor Arthur Schmidt, the first test audience was "very restless" at the start of the film. "They weren't with the movie during the first 10, 15, 20 minutes — maybe even the first half hour.

I remember that some of the kids that were sitting in front of [editor] Harry [Keramidas] and me were poking each other and talking." Luckily, audiences were won over by the second half of the film. Would audiences have flocked to Spaceman From Pluto? According to film sources, Sheinberg felt strongly that the title Back to the Future was too confusing for audiences and pushed to change the name to Spaceman From Pluto, a reference to a comic book seen early in the film. Zemeckis and Gale were adamant that the name not be changed, and while Sheinberg now admits the "wisdom" in the title that was chosen, he denies suggesting Spaceman From Pluto as an alternative. Zemeckis wasn't thrilled about making a sequel. The film was a gargantuan success, grossing $210.6 million domestically to become the highest-grossing film of 1985. After the success, Zemeckis was reluctant to make a sequel but felt he was "struck by Sophie's Choice" when the studio appeared to imply that the follow-up would get made with or without him.

Email: Ryan.Gajewski@THR.com ‎Back to the Future (1985) directed by Robert Zemeckis • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet...but your kids are going to love it." - Marty McFly I...oh, wow. Seriously, wow. WOW. WOW. WOW. I need to calm down. How have I missed out on watching this properly for 16 years? 16 YEARS. While it's not perfect, it's certainly one of the most feel-good films I've ever seen. Not for one moment did I not have a smile on my face. Very few movies are able to do that to me. The ratio of air-punching moments is off the scales, too. Even though I'd seen the ending a few times when I had caught the odd showing of this on ITV, there was a genuine sense of peril… 2 Beneath the now-iconic blend of plot, performances, music and dialogue that is "Back to the Future," beats the heart of one of filmdom's great adventures. It is a heart that beats robustly with imagination, comedy, and excitement.

Robert Zemeckis's comic slice of science fiction adventure is truly one of the most entertaining films ever made. The story is well-known: a 17-year-old Marty McFly pilots a time machine from 1985 to 1955, the year his parents were to meet and fall in love. Without jeopardizing his very existence, Marty must find a way to get back to the future. In the hands of Zemeckis, this story is sleek, clever, and full of the stuff that draws huge smiles across the faces… 12 How do you review a film that is to all intents and purposes a piece of entertainment perfection? It uses an age old story telling conceit, that of the lost child that needs to find its way home, and molds that into a story of high adventure that is as engaging as it is unforgettable. Back to the Future has one goal and that is to entertain you without taking short cuts and making it easy for itself. It does so with a perfect script, an impeccable cast, intelligent direction and one of the best scores ever created. It is astounding really how well this film works on all levels imaginable.

In films these days I often miss the art… I just want to forget the world around me and dull the self-acrimony; my roommate had never seen it before. She liked it, but she did not expect it to be quite as goofy as it was. Other thoughts: * When I was in college, my friends used to talk about getting a white lab coat, sitting in a physics lecture, waiting for the professor to start, then jumping up and screaming "1.21 gigawatts!" before running out. They never did it, and the world is poorer for it. * Completely disgusting sexual politics, hinging the whole "romance" around sexual assault. Also somewhat gross to have a white guy inventing rock'n'roll, sorta, and inspiring Goldie. * Huey Lewis and the News…

Question: Who directed Back To The Future?
Answer: Robert Zemeckis